Crete: 38-year-old tourist in critical condition – no surgeon at hospital

A 38-year-old tourist who was involved in an accident at BOAK with a ruptured spleen was urgently admitted to the operating room, as a result of which he was seriously injured. Unfortunately, the Agios Nikolaos Hospital in Crete has no surgeons on duty due to a severe shortage of medical personnel.

A solution to the depressing image presented by the NHS in the “heart” of summer and a flood of tourists on the islands is provided by the director of the surgery clinic (Nikos Moudtsakis), who rushes to the hospital and arranges an emergency operation. surgery.

Shortage of staff in the middle of summer is a double concern for tourist destinations

Hospital staff have repeatedly expressed serious concern over the prevailing situation due to internal movement and departure of doctors and nurses.

7th Ministry of Health Decision

Doctors at the hospital expressed their grave concern over the decision of the 7th Ministry of Health to send a sub-surgeon working in Scythia to Kos and renew his transfer for a second term, as there was a negative recommendation from the administration. Lasithiou is the interconnected hospitals of the province.

According to the information, the administration’s proposal refers to the urgent need for a specific doctor to cover the eight vacant shifts at Agios Nikolaos Hospital. In the two emergency cases in which he was not on duty in the past few days, the director of surgery had to intervene to save human lives, as they say.

Problems related to the shortage of doctors at Agios Nikolaos Hospital have been observed in the past. As a result of three out of four anesthetists taking sick leave due to ill health, the hospital was not able to cover even emergency cases.